Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has admitted in a message to company employees that he had an affair with a woman U.S. intelligence believes is a Chinese spy, prompting the company’s board to open an independent investigation on Sunday.
\n\nAxios reports that Huang’s admission came in a draft email to Nvidia staff obtained by the outlet. “I owe my family and all of you an apology,” he wrote. “I was unfaithful to my wife. My actions hurt her and our children. There is no excuse for what I did.”
\n\nThe woman has been identified as Alice Huang a tech executive turned alleged Chinese spy who was recruited to gather information from Jensen Huang and potentially press him to support making Nvidia’s advanced chips available in China, despite existing export restrictions.
\n\nBreitbart News previously reported that Nvidia denied an improper relationship between its CEO and the Chinese woman:
\n\nAuthorities were already investigating whether Alice Huang was helping China obtain restricted advanced Nvidia AI chips before surveillance revealed she had developed a close relationship with Jensen Huang, according to a report by the New York Times. The discovery raised alarms due to Huang’s central role in the global AI race as the CEO…
Original source: https://www.breitbart.com/tech/
